President Ronald Reagan declared July 16 as National Atomic Veterans Day, in recognition of service member participation in U ...

On this week’s “More To The Story,” Daniel Holz from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists discusses why the hands of the Doomsday Clock are the closest they’ve ever been to midnight.

Robert Celestial, president of the Pacific Association for Radiation Survivors, or PARS, said it was very disappointing to ...

The U.S. carried out more nuclear tests than any other country and Nevada was used as a location 928 times due to its ideal geography and low population.

The mushroom cloud from the “Ivy Mike” nuclear test over Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands on November 1, 1952. Image: Los Alamos National Laboratory At least 14 nuclear scientists are ...

It was detonated in a test codenamed Ivy Mike at Enewetak Atoll in November 1952, yielding 10.4 megatons of TNT, the measurement that quantifies the force of nuclear weapons.

From the earliest tests at Enewetak Atoll to the Nevada Test Site, the sight of the billowing cloud became synonymous with the era’s scientific and military advancements.

In 1951, the U.S. conducted its first thermonuclear experiment as part of Operation Greenhouse by detonating a 225-kiloton device (nicknamed “George”) on Enewetak Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.

Plan you week with the help of our 10-day weather forecasts and weekend weather predictions for Enewetak, Enewetak Atoll, MH ...

The mushroom cloud from the Ivy Mike test detonation of the world’s first full-scale thermonuclear device rises above the Pacific Ocean, over the Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands, Nov. 1 ...

After exploding 43 nuclear bombs on the Enewetak Atoll between 1948 and 1958, and removing the people who lived there from their homes, the U.S. government did not initiate clean up until the 1970s.